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Fremantle's preparation for their finals campaign is going well after Aaron Sandilands was successfully rested for the Round 19 match against the Kangaroos. But while the rest went well, the game he missed was a bit of a shambles. Fremantle struggled to kick goals against an enthusiastic North Melbourne and were given a taste of what it's like to be an Eagle. The Dockers were belted in the opening quarter, kicking just one goal to the Roos' seven but they regained some pride in the second quarter, pegging the margin back to 11. After half time the Dockers succumbed to the pressure of the Roos a few too many times, turning the ball over and coughing up goals to far inferior footballers, eventually losing by 54 points.
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Last year was a bit of a bust and it can only be put down to one thing - with a new coach, the supporters put too much faith in him. They stopped working the magnetic board, coming up with the perfect match ups and killer moves and weren't prepared to yell out advice to the coach between quarters. Poor old Harves wouldn't have known what to do. So make sure this season you arrive at the game prepared and when you see Mark Harvey walking by, yell out your best ideas at the top of your voice to help him along.
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After demolishing the West Coast Eagles and setting fire to the rubble last week, Fremantle continue their trip through the lands of incompetence when they head over to Victoria to play the North Melbourne Kangaroos. It will be a nice change for them to play a Saturday afternoon game in Melbourne, rather than their last trip east which saw them fixtured on a Sunday morning and subsequently beaten in the first quarter. It will also be a nice change of pace after tacking on teams like St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs at the Ice Rink this year, Fremantle will be able to test their skating skills against a team that, just a few weeks ago, they beat by 61 points. |
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Have your say on how the Dockers players performed on the weekend by rating each player from zero to five or just pop in and have a look what everyone else had to say about the team.
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To save people forking over their hard earned money to the AFL in exchange for a magazine that gets bigger every week, making it harder to get to the only part you actually want - the names of the players, we've introduced the Dockerland Budget.
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Despite Fremantle only kicking one goal when Aaron Sandilands was out for the match against the Crows last year, Mark Harvey is treating the Kangaroos with the respect they deserve this week, resting the big bloke after he apparently 'injured' his 'foot'. He'll miss the trip east along with Hayden Ballanytne who also has a sore foot and Chris Tarrant who was assaulted by Andrew Embely last week. Into the side will come NAB Rising Star Award winner Rhys Palmer, the versatile Kepler Bradley and the exciting yet mysterious Dylan Roberton.
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The build up to Derby 32 was more about anticipation than excitement. The Fremantle supporters were anticipating their top 4 side dishing out a belting to the bottom of the ladder Eagles, building Freo’s percentage and using the soft opposition to get themselves back in the winners circle. The Eagles supporters, God bless the little dears, were anticipating an upset to make amends for the previous six matches where they’ve been unable to get past WA’s number one football club.
But while one groups is well renowned as completely delusional with a belief in their club that has never crossed paths with reality and the other group supported Fremantle, Mark Harvey wasn’t taking any chances.
As a keen competitor he knows that you can’t take any opponent lightly. Sure, their forward line needs a lot of work; and their midfield is quite weak; and their defense, well defenses are over rated; and just because rather than run through the banner they sort of snuck up on it and politely squeezed past, that didn’t mean that they weren’t an opponent worthy of respect.
Mark Harvey gets a lot of things wrong. |
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From a neutral football purists point of view, it's always a shame to see a game of football over before the first quarter. From a Fremantle supporters perspective though, there's nothing better than seeing those canary yellow woofters suffer in their designer jocks for three hours, as their football club is violently ripped limb from limb by their football betters, WA's premier footy team - The Fremantle Dockers. Freo refused to concede a goal in the opening quarter, belting through 7 of their own and ending the game. Hope vanished quicker than the Landrovers from the car park after that and Fremantle cruised home for a 75 point win, not just handing the Eagles the wooden spoon but belting them with it too - something which, if done to most of them as children, wouldn't have seen their club become the shambles it is today.
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